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From: tr@djinn.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: GNU awk (gawk) on MS-DOS
Summary: I found a trick, though I don't know why it's necessary.
Keywords: awk gnu gawk
Message-ID: <7444@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 17 May 88 12:30:41 GMT
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In article <2347@rayssd.ray.com> trr@rayssd.ray.com (Terry R. Raymond) writes:
$ 
$ I could not give it a script from the command  line but it works 
$ when you put the script in a file and use the -f option.  I must 
$ also say that the script I used was pretty simple.
$ 
$ { print "stuff " $1 " more stuff" }
$ 
$ -- 

Try leaving a blank after the ending quote on the command line.
There must be some bug in the compiler that comiled AWK to
require this.  For example,

	awk "{print $1} "

And notice you need double quotes, unlike in Unix, where you need
single quotes.

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